IDC's Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment Taxonomy, 2025

Description

This IDC study provides a comprehensive overview and definitions for enterprise infrastructure hardware. The definitions provided in this document represent the scope of IDC's enterprise infrastructure hardware research.This taxonomy outlines market segmentations and measurement methodologies for the enterprise infrastructure market including classification by technology, vendor, geography, and revenue metrics. "The buyer and cloud taxonomy and market coverage extend IDC's enterprise infrastructure research by overlaying a cloud and service provider view of which types of customers are purchasing infrastructure," said Natalya Yezhkova, research vice president, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms, and Technologies Group at IDC. "This document will evolve as IDC's analysis and granularity of cloud and buyer research grow over time."

Product Code: US53257425

IDC's Worldwide Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment Taxonomy

Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment Taxonomy Changes for 2025

Taxonomy Overview

Definitions

Infrastructure Buyer
- Hyperscalers (Versus Hyperscale Datacenter)
- Cloud Service Providers
  - Shared Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers
  - Cloud Software-as-a-Service Providers
- Digital Service Providers
- Communication Services
- Dedicated Hosting and Managed Services
- Nonservice Provider
Infrastructure Platform
- Cloud
- Noncloud
Infrastructure Sharing
- Dedicated
- Shared
Location
- Service Provider Site
- Colocation Site
- Customer Site
Core Versus Edge
- Core - The "Central Datacenter"
- Edge - Everything Between the "Core" and "Endpoints"
  - Heavy Edge Infrastructure
Technology Segments
Product Category
- OEM Server
  - Accelerator Type
  - Accelerator Type Definitions
- OEM Storage
- ODM Direct
Enterprise Infrastructure Suppliers
- Vendor Recognition
Enterprise Infrastructure Market Metrics
- Revenue
- Units
- System Units
- Terabytes
- Exchange Rates
Geographic Segmentation